mediciNe & HeAltH/RHode islANd Chlamydia traChomatis (Ct) And Neisseria gonorrhoeae (NG) are the two most common reportable sexually transmitted infections (STIs) in the United States. Adolescent girls (15 to19 years of age) and young women (20 to 24 years of age) are at highest risk for these infections. This likely reflects a combination of factors, including biological differences that place...

BACKGROUND Several risk factors already have been determined for dogs with degenerative mitral valve disease (DMVD). Risk factors often have been considered in isolation and have not always taken into account additional information provided by the history and physical examination (PE). HYPOTHESIS/OBJECTIVES Data obtained from history and PE of dogs with DMVD provide prognostic information and...

OBJECTIVE Indians have the highest risk rates for coronary artery disease (CAD) among all ethnic groups. There is a paucity of data on the risk factors and clinical markers associated with premature CAD. We aimed to determine whether young CAD is due to preventable lifestyle-related factors and cutaneous clinical markers are useful in identifying at-risk patients. DESIGN Single-centre retrosp...

BACKGROUND Approximately one-third of refugees worldwide live in refugee camps. Selected neurologic diseases are actively reported in some refugee camps. METHODS The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees monitors health visits in refugee camps with the assistance of more than 25 partner organizations using standardized case definitions. Neurologic diseases were selected and searched f...

1Laboratory of Clinical Infectious Diseases, 2Laboratory of Immunoregulation, and 3Biostatistics Research Branch, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD; 4Applied and Developmental Research Support Program, Science Application International Corporation-Frederick, National Cancer Institute, Frederick, MD; and 5Critical Care Medicine Dep...

We present novel experiments in modeling the rise and fall of story characteristics within narrative, leading up to the Most Reportable Event (MRE), the compelling event that is the nucleus of the story. We construct a corpus of personal narratives from the bulletin board website Reddit, using the organization of Reddit content into topic-specific communities to automatically identify narrative...

TOPIC The incidence and morbidity of herpes zoster (HZ) and HZ ophthalmicus (HZO), and the potential impact of varicella vaccine on their epidemiology. CLINICAL RELEVANCE Herpes zoster affects 20% to 30% of the population at some point in their lifetime; approximately 10% to 20% of these individuals will have HZO. METHODS The peer-reviewed literature published from 1865 to the present was r...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to determine the factors associated with Pterygium, utilizing history and examination. METHODS In this prospective case series study, a total of 1227 patients with Pterygium presenting at the Department of Ophthalmology, Chandka Medical College Hospital Larkana, Pakistan, from January 1997 to January 2015 were included. A standard proforma containing prop...